Pretense Sayings and Quotes

Below you will find our collection of inspirational, wise, and humorous old pretense quotes, pretense sayings, and pretense proverbs, collected over the years from a variety of sources.

When all lies, deceit, pretense is stripped away, what remains? The truth of a painting, or a book or a man. William S. Burroughs
Those that don't got it, can't show it. Those that got it, can't hide it. Zora Neale Hurston
People defend nothing more violently than the pretenses they live by. Allen Drury